The Five Girls of the Lin Family in the Red Chamber

Lin Jing didn't expect Daiyu to answer anything, she just wanted to tell her that the Rongguo Mansion was not as harmless as it appeared on the surface, and there must be a plan for her, and Daiyu needed to go there personally. looking for answers.

As soon as I was talking here, I saw Baoyu walking towards this side with someone. Lin Jing sneered, stood up, and said lazily: "Here, I'm here to look for you." As she spoke, she ignored Daiyu. Shyly, said: "I will not obstruct your eyes." Then he was ready to leave.

Seeing Lin Jing, Baoyu subconsciously called out, and when she saw her looking at him with a half-smile, Jia Baoyu felt scared again, but Nuonuo didn't know what to say, and saw Xiren hurriedly following him from behind , still holding a purse, jade pendant and other things in his hand, he said angrily: "The one you hung was untied by that shameless thing?" As he said that, he was about to put the pendant on Baoyu again, looking very intimate .

Lin Jing originally planned to leave, but Baoyu came to look for Daiyu, and they were friends since they were young. Although they felt that Baoyu was childish, they were childhood sweethearts after all, and Lin Jing couldn't do such a thing of beating mandarin ducks. Son, but what kind of situation is this? Seeing Daiyu's slightly frowning brows, Lin Jing sneered, and said in a strange way: "Yo, I haven't become an aunt yet, so I started flirting." Seeing that Xiren's face was flushed, Lin Jing raised her eyebrows and glanced at Daiyu before leaving Hanfang Pavilion.

Although Lin Ruhai asked her to take care of Daiyu, the matter between her and Baoyu was her own private matter, and she had no interest in intervening. She only needed to ensure that no one would bully Daiyu, and nothing else She pays too much attention.

Lianrui followed Lin Jing, smiled lightly, and said, "Look at this servant girl, Baoyu's thoughts on Miss Daiyu are not simple." She shook her head and sighed: "It's a pity, if the uncle still returns It's okay to be alive, but now that my uncle is gone, the second wife doesn't look like a good friend."

"Didn't you say that the second wife is the most charitable?" Lin Jing joked.

Lian Rui smiled and said, "Maybe so."

"This garden is really well built." Lin Jing smiled as she walked, "I just don't know where the money came from." She hooked the corners of her lips sarcastically, and said: "Then Wang Xifeng's men are not clean Well, in order to build this garden, I don’t know how much was exploited.”

"Girl, why do we need to worry about that?" Lian Rui said with a smile: "The girl from Lixiangyuan is the daughter of Mrs. Wang's direct relative, and she comes from the Xue family in Jinling, so how can she be short of money if she came from the royal merchants of the Xue family. "

"That's the reason." Lin Jing pursed her lips, she turned her head slightly, and said with a little hesitation: "Then what you mean... what happened yesterday was not done by Mrs. Wang?"

"That's not necessarily the case." Lian Rui shook her head lightly, and said with a chuckle, "No one would dislike having too much money, right?" Lian Rui blinked her eyes, looked at her young lady, and said, "But , People in the Rongguo Mansion really make people look down on them, although our Lin family is in a bit of a mess, we won't blatantly rummage through other people's things, will we?"

"I see that this garden has been repaired for more than half, and I'm afraid that the money is almost used." Lian Rui looked around, walked to Lin Jing, and said in a low voice: "Look at me, the old lady is probably You have to do something, after all, you are the eldest girl in the family, and visiting relatives is a decent thing, and the old lady will definitely save face for the eldest girl." Lian Rui frowned, sighed softly, and said: " This courtyard has consumed a huge amount of money, and Concubine Xiande will not know how long she will be able to stay there, so it will be wasted."

Lin Jing's complexion flashed, and she happened to see the two nuns following behind her, and said with a smile: "Are you still used to living here?" They are the ones left by Princess Danqing to serve.

"Everything is fine." The two hurriedly bowed and saluted, and they seemed to respect the rules.

Lin Jing smiled, "Did the nuns always serve by Princess Danqing's side?" She brushed her hair and asked curiously: "What do the ladies in the boudoir in Beijing do on weekdays? What about having fun?" She explained with a smile: "When I was in Gusu before, most of the ladies in Gusu would post invitations to go to the garden to enjoy the scenery in spring, and March is the time when flowers bloom, so it would be great to go to the lake in spring at this time It's nothing but, but I've been in Rongguo Mansion for a long time, but I haven't seen the girl in the mansion go out to play, I think the lady in the boudoir in Beijing doesn't like this?"

"That's not the case." After listening to her explanation, Nanny Li said with a smile.

"Oh?" Lin Jing blinked her eyes, and asked pretendingly puzzled: "Kerongguo Mansion is the standard of a Duke's mansion, and we have heard of the reputation of four princes and eight princes in Gusu. Now the eldest girl in the mansion has been canonized as a virtuous concubine, and she can go back to the mansion to see her relatives, which shows her favor." Lin Jing paused, and said: "It stands to reason that a family like Rongguo Mansion, The girl in the family should receive flower stickers, right?"

Nanny Li glanced at Nanny Pei before explaining: "There are some reasons for this, the girl didn't know very well when she first came to think about it." She paused, and then said: "Some things are not just because slaves can talk too much. Tongue, just before coming, the princess told the servants to know everything."

Mother Pei pursed her lips, and then said softly: "Although the Rongguo Mansion is now the standard of the Duke's Mansion, it has long been out of compliance. After the death of the old Duke, the Rongguo Mansion pardoned the Grand Master and demoted him to be a nobleman. Assuming the title of first-class general, therefore, the Rongguo Mansion should no longer be under the rules of the Duke's Mansion, this is overstepping the rules." Mother Pei paused, and then said: "Because of the old lady's favor, the second master, It has long been no secret in Beijing that he lives in the main hall of the mansion, while Mr. She, who has seized the title, lives in a corner."

"People with good manners naturally don't like to make friends with them." Li Mama went on to say, "Besides, Mr. Amnesty ignores everything and spends his days looking for fun. But he has never been promoted, and he is pedantic and conservative, so there are not many officials who have good friends with him."

"There are traces of the friendship between the girls in the boudoir."

After hearing this, Lin Jing was thoughtful, she was silent for a moment, and then said: "You mean... this Rongguo Mansion is not like what he's shown... full of flowers?" She didn't wait for the nun to answer, He narrowed his eyes and said again: "Your princess asked me what I want to do in the future, but you don't want me to continue living in Rongguo Mansion?"

Nanny Li said quickly: "The princess is just worried about the girl."

Lin Jing looked at her carefully for a long while before saying, "I see." Then she let the two of them leave.

Lian Rui's brows seemed to form a pimple, she looked at Lin Jing, and said, "Miss, it seems that this Rongguo Mansion is not a place to stay for a long time."

Lin Jing pursed her lips and said, "It might as well, let's have a look first."

You have to go out of Rongguo Mansion to know more, but she is not very familiar with this Rongguo Mansion. She originally thought that she was just staying here. As long as she stated that she had a shop in Beijing, it was only a matter of saying that she wanted to go out. , but he didn't expect that although the woman guarding the gate was joking, she didn't intend to let Lin Jing go out.

This made Lin Jing extremely unhappy.

When Mrs. Wang came with Zhou Rui's family, she frowned and asked, "Who is going out?" She looked at Lin Jing, twitched her face, and said, "So it's Miss Jing." Frowning and reprimanding the woman, she said: "Miss, you don't know something. Now the house is busy repairing the garden. I am afraid that the craftsman will offend the girl in the house, so the access control has been increased." She looked at it Lin Jing took a look, then smiled and said: "It's just that our Rongguo Mansion is more disciplined than other small families. The girls in the mansion are all pampered. How can they go out casually? It's not appropriate to say it. Isn't it?" Although she had a smile on her face, she was running on Lin Jing's meaning inside and outside the words, and said: "Now that Miss Jing is raised in Rongguo Mansion, she naturally has to abide by the rules. Those who often go out to show their faces, outsiders should think that the girls in our house are not well-bred."

Lin Jing raised her eyebrows, but said, "Madam Wang means...to put me under house arrest?"

"Look at what the girl said." Mrs. Wang quickly waved her hand and said, "I'm all for the girl's good, but I never thought that the girl misunderstood me so far." She smiled and narrowed her eyes, "How dare I put the girl under house arrest."

"What if I have to go out?" Lin Jing narrowed her eyes.

"Miss, don't make it difficult for me." Mrs. Wang said with a smile: "If the girl wants to go out, the old lady must always nod." She reached out to pull Lin Jing, but she dodged it. Said: "The girl also went to inquire about it, all the girls, there is no one who always wants to go out."

Lin Jing glanced at Mrs. Wang with a half-smile, and then said, "What does that lady mean is that I don't need to pay attention to the shop my mother left me?"

Mrs. Wang's eyes flashed, and she said with a smile: "Of course that's not the meaning." Her face was a little slack, and she trembled when she laughed. Girl, who is going to worry about this by himself, and they all send trustworthy stewards to watch, just look at the account book every month."

"But I came from Yangzhou, and I brought Lian Rui with me."

"It's such a difficult thing." Zhou Rui's family glanced at Mrs. Wang, and said with a smile, "Earlier, Erlian's second grandma pointed the girls out, but the girl disliked their clumsiness and refused to order them around." She glanced at Lin Jing and said: "After a while, the servant will pick two smart girls to order the girl. If you have something to do, you can just order it."

Lin Jing slapped Zhou Rui's family on the face with a cold face, and said: "What are you? How can I get you to direct me here?" She looked at Mrs. Wang, and said: " My wife has always been a benevolent person, why are the servants around me so ignorant and disrespectful?"

Seeing Mrs. Wang's pale face, Lin Jing raised her eyebrows in a good mood, and said: "It seems that Sister Feng deliberately picked a clumsy and unusable girl to serve me. Those who don't know think that Sister Feng doesn't like me. , did it on purpose."

Lin Jing saw Mrs. Wang's face was very ugly, she looked at Mrs. Wang pretending to be wronged, and said: "Could it be that I made a mistake?"

"No." Mrs. Wang's voice seemed to be squeezed out between her teeth, and the smile on her face could hardly be maintained. The girl who beat and scolded Zhou Rui's family was just trying to make an example of others. Said that she shouldn't meddle in her affairs, is this a dog meddling with a mouse.

"It's fine if you don't have one." Lin Jing lowered her head shyly, and sighed softly: "This naughty slave is spreading rumors behind Sister Feng's back, sowing dissension, if I really believe her words, won't I wrong Sister Feng?" Lin Jing looked at Zhou Rui's family's frowning and said, "It's my wife's kindness that can accommodate such a slave." These words really have a lot of meaning.

Lin Jing saw that Mrs. Wang almost failed to maintain the illusion of kindness on her face, she secretly smiled, but she didn't show anything on her face, she tilted her head and pretended to be ignorant and asked: "Then according to the wife's wishes, my mother will leave it to you. Who should take care of my shop?"